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I want to bring in chad meyers here. talk to me about the flash flood emergency. >> it means that flash flooding is occurring. and it is life-threatening over the city of houston. harris county and also just slightly to the west of harris county, too. let me get to what has happened over the past three or four hours. this big purple eruption of cloud cover has gone right over the city of houston. and southward too, all the way down to just about galveston. it's a train of storms. one storm after the other that is going along the same path. that's the same problem and the aim threat that the pi...

>> i don't know. maybe he was watching cnn fake news. what do you think? are we on? looks like we've lost connection with senator sanders. let's try to get that back. >> i never saw that. abby: eventually brought sanders back after a commercial break. i've got to watch that again. are we on? are you there? reporter: i don't know if we know if they happen. did we lose our connection with rick? reporter: i am here. super strange. i cannot turn to go outside. all of the crew is inside to shooting out the door. >> it's pouring down rain. reporter: it's just a couple sprinkles. abby: did you shower...

On the holiday. that's what we are in right now. if is really, really difficult and hard to see this happen right now, because california is probably going to be dealing with a lot of this including mudslides if it starts to really pour down rain. the state needs it so, so bad. >> thank you so much for that perspective. i want to bring in heather sumagaisi. she is a public relations expert watching this as well. can you give us an update on what's happening there this more? what is the biggest obstacle in >> reporter: the biggest obstacle is the thing we have been fighting for the last couple ...

64-car freight train loaded with cement. tracking this storm all morning long from the cnn weather center. and ed lavandera live for us near dallas where the freight train was swept off the tracks. sounds like it's still windy, raining. what are the conditions overall is there? and how are emergency crews able to get to that freight train? >> fredericka, it's unrelenting rain. it doesn't stop. it's pouring down rain, but it's been a steady downpour throughout the morning and that hasn't stopped. although, we are this close you can see the same in the distance 64 cars that were toppled over by ...

Arrow? >> yes, indeed. i'm outside the late president's home where we are seeing that same sill vertebcelebrate atmos. a pleasure to meet you. first, what do you make of this spectacle that we are witnessing now? it's pouring down rain in the city yet people are still coming out to honor this one great man. >> it's unusual for it to rain like this. in timber culture this is what is expected. >> reporter: explain that. >> rain is associated with wellness, with growing, with all of those things that people want. so when a chief dies in a community or something happens in his family, it's suppose...